Article
A metabolic study of the activity of GDP-mannose dehydrogenase and concentrations of activated intermediates of alginate biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Journal of general microbiology - 1 Jan 1993
Tatnell P J, Russell N J, Gacesa P
Abstract excerpt
GDP-mannose dehydrogenase (GMD) is a key regulatory enzyme and the committal step in alginate biosynthesis. In this study, a metabolic approach has been used to investigate GMD activity in non-mucoid and isogenically related mucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Intracellular concentrations of GDP-mannose and GDP-mannuronate have been quantified using HPLC separation methods, and their concentrations have...
Topics
- Alginates
- Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases
- Cell Extracts
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose
- Mutation
- Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugars
- Nucleotides
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
